Verse:Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing

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Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing
səyIdosm
Pronunciation[/səjiˈdosm̩/]
Created byIlL
SettingVerse:Tricin
Tsimulh
  • Idosic
    • Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing
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Idosian (ee-DOH-see-ən; natively səyIdosm /səjiˈdosm̩/ lit. 'the language of the eastern people') is a major Tsimulh language mainly spoken in herIdosm, a country in East Txapoalli. It is one of the more innovative Tsimulh languages.

Idosian is loosely inspired by "backwards Tibetan" and the idea of a language with restricted initial consonants.

Todo

  • intervocalic ʔ, h after a, e, o, i, u > ɹ
  • intervocalic ʔ, h after î > y, after û > w
  • high/fricated î, û > i u
  • First get some hiatusing vowels
  • im, in in closed syllables > am, an
  • p-less: p becomes glottal stop?

there could be a rule where every unstressed syllable gets lenited that would reduce the number of possible initial consonants and if you couple that with post tonic syncope you could get some crazy phonotactics

like no initial clusters or even initial stops but weird tibetan like clusters in the middle of a word

pda-sfëtsiv > hia-zëncm

Phonology

Consonants

Idosian is unusual among Tsimulh languages in that it natively has a liquid consonant /ɹ/, whereas Proto-Tsimulh and most other Tsimulh languages do not natively have liquids. Idosian gained /ɹ/ via R-intrusion, influenced by an Old Shalian substrate; /ɹ/ may even occur word-initially (coming from words with null initial).

Modern Idosian has 25 consonants:

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
central lateral plain labialized plain labialized
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ŋ /ŋ/
Stop plain t /t/ k /k/ kw /kʷ/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /g/ gw /gʷ/
Affricate c /ts/ č /tʃ/
Fricative voiceless s /s/ σ /ɬ/ š /ʃ/ x /x/ xw /xʷ/ ħ /χ/ ħw /χʷ/ h /h/
voiced z /z/ ž /ʒ/
Approximant r /ɹ~ʋ/ y /j/ w /w/

m n ŋ can be syllabic.

Vowels

Hmøøh/Some Æ-Xenic thing vowels
Front Central Back
Close i /i/ ə /ɨ~ɘ/ u /u/
Mid e /e/ o /o/
Open a /a/

/ə(ɹ) a(ɹ) e(ɹ) i(ɹ) i(j) o(ɹ) u(ɹ) u(w)/ < Pre-Idosian ə a e i î o u û /ə a e ɪ i̝ o ʊ u̝/ < Proto-Tsimulh /a ą e į i ę ų u/

Phonotactics

No initial clusters or stops are allowed, but after a stressed syllable anything goes.

Grammar

Like many Tsimulh languages, Idosian has a Bantu-style noun class system.

Idosian morphology is more complex than that of other Trician languages due to syncope of the various prefix elements.